Unknown
(Australia – )
Image of the figures of 'Portia' and 'Hamlet' at the base of the Shakespeare Memorial 1926 by Bertram Mackennal
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Bertram Mackennal created the Shakespeare Memorial in Sydney at the request of journalist and former president of the Shakespeare Society of New South Wales, Henry Gullett. Gullett began negotations with Mackennal in 1912, however, the commission was halted due to Gullett's sudden death in 1914. Gullett's family pressed on with the memorial, which was unveiled in 1926. Five figures from Shakespeare's plays stand beneath the central figure of the playwright himself: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Portia and Falstaff. The Shakespeare Memorial sits opposite the Mitchell Library of the State Library of New South Wales in Shakespeare Place.
- Place of origin
-
Sydney,
New South Wales,
Australia
- Year
- circa 1927
- Media
- Photograph
- Medium
- gelatin silver photograph
- Dimensions
- 20.0 x 16.0 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- National Art Archive. Gift of the artist's granddaughter, Pauline Kraay, 2012
- Accession number
- ARC354.4.2
